Show Me the Money: Implementation of a Unique Cost Awareness Curriculum for Medical Residents

Description

The University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine developed a resident-led cost awareness curriculum for internal medicine residents in order to improve physician attitudes towards cost control and to cultivate more cost-effective physician ordering behaviors. The longitudinal curriculum involves an independent learning project for all PGY1 residents, as well as a monthly case-based conference to review a commonly encountered clinical scenario with resource-utilization variability. Learners found the curriculum to be highly useful and were likely to change their test-ordering practices based on the material they learned.